Of all the stupidity coming out of the White House, this crap about sending troops, outfitted to engage in armed conflict to save our “war-ravaged” cities from the radical left may be at the very top of the list.
I like the reader’s phrase, “You are lost as a human being.” This is the central problem with the MAGA base; they are lost, incapable of thinking for themselves.
If the ultra-right wing can successfully grow this base over time, we have the makings of the end of our country as we know it.
As screwed up as our society is, we all need to keep in mind that most Americans are not Charlie Kirk. Yes, the media is raking in uncountable amounts of money by sensationalizing his assassination but let keep this in perspective.
Charle Kirk was nothing more than the voice for today’s young hateful morons, just like Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Mike Huckabee were for the generation before.
Trump’s approval ratings are low, and they continue to fall. All in all, it looks increasingly unlikely that the United States will ultimately become a banana republic dominated by lawlessness, ignorance and hatred.
The meme here implies that solar thermal was ill-conceived from the start.
Here’s a fair assessment of what happened:
Near the close of the 20th Century, the world began to recognize an intense need to replace the fossil fuel sources of electricity generation: natural gas, but especially coal with its huge greenhouse gas emissions, its extremely toxic heavy metals (mercury, arsenic, selenium, and cadmium), and dozens of poisonous radioactive isotopes.
Public and private entities went to work in an effort to develop literally dozens of clean energy sources: wind, solar thermal, solar PV, hydrostatics, hydrokinetics, geothermal, biomass, and many subvariants.
As in every single set of experiments like these, some pan out and some don’t.
That’s the fair truth. Now it appears that solar PV and wind hold an insurmountable lead over all the others.
Now, those with a motive to discredit renewable energy as a tool of the radical left to waste resources are free to spread whatever propaganda they wish, but anyone with any training in science understands that there is nothing sinister in the way that solar thermal failed to keep up in terms of cost.
Russian Anarchist Emma Goldman was once named the most dangerous woman in America by the FBI, and at the left we can see why.
Her views resemble that of John Lennon, i.e., we have the capacity to build a world based not on force, but on human understanding.
The bad news is that the trend at this point in our civilization’s history is the precise opposite. What we have here is clearly the worst set of world leaders since the early 1930s.
Throughout history, there have been many social critics who have observed that public education represents a real danger to the ruling class. Here’s what George Carlin said on the subject:
Governments don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.
To which I would add: and so desperate for that next paycheck that even the slightest measure of protest is out of the question.
It can be argued that today’s United States represents this concept in spades. Trump says that “many people want a dictatorship” (even though our democratic republic has worked well for the first 249 years of our nation’s existence).
Does any educated person believe that for a second?
Garbage like this thrives on ignorance. Or equivalently: Ignorance is the oxygen that autocracy breathes.
It’s easy to look at the pic here and say, “Well of course people got along back then; it’s a group of hippies. What did you expect?
OK, well let’s ask ourselves what the conservatives were doing 50 years ago. Were they:
Calling in the National Guard to invade U.S. cities whose mayors are Democrats, demonstrating the president’s absolute power?
Using the Justice Department to punish the president’s political enemies?
Dismantling the federal government to enable tax breaks for huge donors?
Shutting down all efforts to protect the environment?
Destroying public education?
The criminal insanity that is the United States is sprung from the converge of the hatred and ignorance of a huge swath of the nation’s voters, and the greatest demagogue/conman since Hitler.
Donald Trump is the only thing young people know about the American presidency: rude, classless, and sociopathic. The rest of us have lived through 10 – 15 presidential administrations and see that it’s only a matter of time before Trump is removed and some level of sanity and human decency is returned to planet Earth and to the United States in particular.
What form his ouster may take is anyone’s guess. The 25th Amendment? Impeachment?
The American ultra-right-wing is lining up a heap of posthumous praise on Charlie Kirk.
Of course, not everyone feels the same, like the author of the meme at left, who points out that Kirk was merely a podcaster.
My problem isn’t that he was a podcaster, but that he represented the very worst viewpoints that America has to offer: white nationalism, hate, the rejection of science, sexism, climate denialism, and the glorification of ignorance.